Ok, the polls are closed. Still no results here at 8:08 pm Eastern. But one man is calling it for Brown. This is on the strength of the sniping earlier today between the Coakely campaign and the White House – you don’t get in arguments like that when you’re headed for a win.

Aaron is live tweeting from Brown HQ.

Looking ahead a bit – Boxer opponent Tom Campbell explains what he’d do about our national debt.

Joe Lieberman points out that a Brown win would change the political dynamic on ObamaCare. Positioning himself for what the Senate might look like next January?

4% in – 52/47 Brown.

Rasmussen says 22% of Democrats voted Brown.

7% in – 51/48 Brown.

29% in – 53/47 Brown.

52% in – 53/47 Brown.

65% in – 53/46 Brown…heck, I’ll call it, if no one else will.

CONGRATULATIONS, SENATOR-ELECT BROWN!!!!

And, hey, remember I called it at about 9:15 pm…pride of place for me. :o)

AP calls it for Brown…masters of the obvious.

It’s been nearly two year since I left Massachusetts for New York. Who would have thought then that a race of national interest would one day come to the Bay State? Not I, for sure.

Obviously, I have no regrets about moving. I am now happily married, and just as active politically here in Western New York as I was in Massachusetts. But, today, I am Masshole once again. As my friends back in Massachusetts fight to win a victory that will change the course of the healthcare debate. For what it’s worth, I am doing my part for Massachusetts, even while I am still here closer to Canada than to Boston. If I had enough vacation time, I’d probably be there now, but I will be covering the night’s event and returns at Hub Politics tonight, while my brother will be on the scene at the Brown Victory Party reporting on the action via Twitter.

it’s going to be an exciting night, folks. Let’s see if the people will get their back and send Scott Brown to the United States Senate!

Gee, wonder what we can talk about today?

Well, I guess we’ll think of something.

Hub Politics will be at the victory party tonight live tweeting the action…

From Scott Brown: An Open Letter To The People of Massachusetts

Via Real Clear Politics:

Let me see if I have this right: there have been six polls of the Massachusetts Senate race released in the last 24 hours, five of which show Scott Brown with leads of 5 points, 7 points, 9 points, 10 points and 10 points, respectively. Only one poll shows the race tied. None of the polls show Martha Coakley with a lead.

How then, you might ask, can the Boston Globe justify characterizing the race as a “dead heat?”…

…citing the most favorable poll by far for Coakley and suggesting that it is “consistent” with the other polls is such a blatant distortion of the current state of the race that the Globe should be ashamed of itself. That would assume, of course, that the Globe is interested in providing its readers with the truth as opposed to putting its thumb on the scale in favor of a preferred political candidate.

Typical media bias – and, of course, all our liberals will just ignore this and say that “reality has a liberal bias”. Reality? Yeah – the reality you get in a liberal fever swamp, that is.

With each other:

A couple of years ago an upstart black politician took on the establishment candidate and did remarkably well for himself. Well, at least until he was sworn in.

Fast forward two years and here we we have another upstart black politician gunning for the establishment candidate in New York and he’s not as well received.

Funny how that is. But Harold Ford isn’t daunted and is now upping the ante.

In his toughest comments to date, Harold Ford cast Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Monday as a “weak” puppet of the state’s political establishment who has failed to connect with voters after a year in office.

“There is no doubt that Sen. Gillibrand is weak in many places across the city and the state,” Ford told the Daily News in an interview. “At best, there is interest in hearing an alternative.”

Have at it, Democrats! But didn’t you liberals say that it was we GOPers who were having the internal battle? Oh, we were – once upon a time, you were correct about that…but during the NY-23 fight, we all realized that we’re on the same conservative/libertarian/independent team against the liberals. We lost that particular race, but we cleared a lot of issues up.

Now we’re united – and the liberals are falling apart.

Just, wow!

In a survey just published and available on the company’s website, but not yet publicized or reported, the left-leaning public opinion firm Democracy Corps confirms the dangers to Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections.

According to Democracy Corps, likely voters have a sharply negative view of the president’s health-care and economic plans, and a far more favorable view of Republicans than they did a few months ago. Because Democracy Corps was founded by Democrats James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, the firm’s findings have significant influence in national Democratic circles.

Democracy Corps surveyed more than 1,000 voters nationwide, including more than 800 likely voters. The group asked voters to identify themselves as “warm” or “cool” on parties or proposals. Fifty-two percent of likely voters described themselves as “cool” on the president’s health-care plan, against just 34 percent were “warm.” When it came to the president’s economic plan, 35 percent were warm against 49 percent cool. The findings are consistent with other national surveys, which show the health-care plan currently under debate to be widely unpopular.

Question: Will the Democrats figure it out? Continue down this road, and electoral disaster awaits. Right now, even if things go well for the Democrats for the rest of the year we can expect some pretty heavy Democrat losses in November – what remains to be seen is if a combination of Democrat errors and GOP efforts can turn a solid GOP performance in to a GOP landslide.

Well, think of this – Nevada is economically moribund, for the most part. Our basic industry – tourism/gaming – is sinking fast, our population is declining and our State budget is massively out of whack. But there is one bright spot in Nevada – mining. With gold reaching record highs, our mining industry is out of the doldrums and providing high paying jobs for American workers to produce American products. What to our liberals want to do with this one healthy industry?

Tax it out of existence, naturally.

Victor Davis Hanson gives a good account of why we’re starting to hold him in contempt and concludes thusly:

But what is taking Obama down below 50% approval is mostly a public awareness that they elected a deeply cynical man, who either cannot or will not speak the truth or keep his promises (note the Nixonian resonance in “perfectly clear about…”). In fact, it is worse than that — in the postmodern world of Barack Obama there is no truth per se, just competing narratives privileged by the relative degree of power behind them and the relative perceived moral intent involved.

So when the advocates of hope and change, of non-traditional America, of the poor and the needy and the more noble, say something, it must be true because, you see, it should be true.

While the steady diet of lies seems to please our liberals (they are mistaken about it, but they don’t realize the lies are what make them so incredibly nasty), they do less well with the rest of us. Its an insult to say you’re going to get those dirty bankers when you appoint one of them to the Treasury – even after its revealed he’s a tax cheat. Doesn’t go down at all well to be assured, repeatedly and on camera, that you’ll have cameras in the health care room and then not have them there. Its not liked when people see regular folks demonstrating and hear them called racists and terrorists by the government they protest.

Its all gone wrong – because liberalism is wrong. Based upon a lie (ie, the perfectibility of Man by human action), it cannot do well and may only be sustained by lies. What we have in the Obama Administration is liberalism writ large – but for the first time, ever, writ large in a society which has providentially developed a New Media to tell the truth (talk radio, blogosphere, Fox News). People are seeing it in all its ugliness, and are turning on it.

The results in Massachusetts will go a long way towards demonstrating where we are and what we need to do. If there is a Republican win on Tuesday, then it will show that even some people who voted liberal did so in large part because they didn’t understand what they were voting for. They were voting for sweet rhetoric, and now they see disgusting reality.

An MSMer advocating voter fraud, if that is what it takes to get the Democrat to win:

Radio Equalizer’s Brian Maloney captured MSNBC’s ED Schultz making a startling remark on his radio show yesterday about supporting voter fraud in Massachusetts, so Scott Brown would lose…

…SCHULTZ (23:02): I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts I’d try to vote 10 times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right. I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ‘Cause that’s exactly what they are.

They become more fascist by the day – and I expect they’ll become even more alarmingly so as defeat stares them in the face. Remember, they don’t care about us, they don’t care about the United States – they only care that they remain in power and flush with un-earned wealth….

Just stunning that this is happening in Massachusetts– From NRO:

From a Friend at the Brown Rally in Worcester

“It’s an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It’s mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.”

Win or lose, Brown has certainly shown that there is no State that Republicans can’t be competitive in. We need to stop thinking in terms of some parts of the country being out of bounds for us – the message of bringing government back under the control of the people is one that resonates. This is why Brown’s “its the peoples’ seat”, I believe, is what really blew this thing wide open…my bet is that even some Democrats are going to vote for Brown just to send a message.

Here in 2010 – and carrying on to 2012 – we need to build on this concept; we need to build on the very correct public perception that the government is out of touch and out of control. This is a core, conservative belief but its become a general belief among the people. We conservatives can ride this to complete victory and thus gain the chance to genuinely reform this nation.

UPDATE: Heh:

As Jonah has noted, Bob Kerrey smeared Scott Brown this weekend on the topic of evolution (a little out-of-left felt, but such is the way of the Left in this race):

“If he’s running against 60 votes and wins, that is not good,” said Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska. “It says that in Massachusetts, they are willing to elect a guy who doesn’t believe in evolution just to keep the Democrats from having 60 votes.”

Brown spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom comments to NRO: “Scott Brown believes in evolution but in the case of Bob Kerrey he’s willing to make an exception.”

I’m willing to concede that all liberals are clearly descended from apes…

UPDATE II: Brown up 9.6 in new poll.